| 单词 | blanketeer | 
| 释义 | † blanketeern. Obsolete.  1.  A person who uses a blanket. One who tosses in a blanket. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > 			[noun]		 > tossing in a blanket > one who tosses canvasser1599 blanketeer1755 1755    T. Smollett tr.  M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I.  iii. iv. 107  				God grant there may be neither blankets nor blanketeers.  2.  plural. A body of operatives who met at the so-called Blanket Meeting in St. Peter's Fields near Manchester, on 10th March 1817, provided with blankets or rugs, in order to march to London and press their grievances upon the attention of the Government. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > 			[noun]		 > militant person > protester or demonstrator > specific hearts of oak1763 frame-breaker1811 blanketeers1823 Rockite1823 Rebeccaite1843 plug-drawer1888 Greenham woman1982 1823    W. Cobbett Rural Rides in  Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 Aug. 345  				These base landlords laughed..at the Blanketteers. 1833    R. Southey in  C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey 		(1850)	 VI. 203  				The projected expedition of the Blanketeers. Derivatives  blankeˈteering  n. Π 1839    ‘D. I. Moriarty’ Husband-Hunter III. 230  				On returning from her blanketeering adventure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < | 
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